Finally. After 3 days of hassles with my previous hosting company to get a simple nameserver change it looks like it’s done. Instigator Blog is now hosted at a new company. I’m testing things out as quickly as possible. If you see something wrong or something that looks broken please let me know via email […]
Archives for March 2007
Give Out Some Link Love and Remove NoFollow
When people leave a comment on your blog (or generate a trackback by linking to a blog post), your blogging software is most likely adding the “nofollow” microformat extension. The result is that search engines like Google don’t follow those links off your site, and therefore the sites linking to you don’t gain any Google […]
Your FeedBurner Email Subscriptions May Be Unreadable
Most people subscribe to blogs via RSS feeds. But there are a number that also subscribe via email. I always recommend that you offer both — RSS feed and email. With FeedBurner it’s a snap. But recently one of my email readers, Carole Lane from The San Diego Beat, informed me that the font size […]
Does Your Blog Design Matter?
“Put your best foot forward.” “First impressions count.” “Are you wearing clean underwear? What happens if you get hit by a bus and have to be taken to the hospital?” Aside from the fact that your mother most likely uttered all of these to you at some point in your life, what else are these […]
Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast Going Strong
This morning we held our 2nd Montreal Tech Entrepreneur Breakfast and we had a solid turnout. Lots of new faces which was great to see, and some old ones too. A few people to check out: Carl Mercier Mat Balez Smart Initiatives – Kristina Tomaz-Young Code Genome – Benjamin Thouret MoreIdeas, Inc. – Thomas Jelonek […]
10 Things To Do After You Launch Your Blog
You’ve launched your new blog…now what? You want to share your ideas with the world. You want to make a name for yourself. You want to stand out. You want to have some fun too, learn a bit and leverage blogging in other aspects of your life (both personal and business.) All true? Then get […]
10 Questions To Ask Before Launching Your Blog
Setting up a blog is a combination of 20,000 foot vision and nitty gritty details. You can’t have a successful blog without thinking about high level questions — What’s its purpose? Who do I want to connect with? Why am I blogging? At the same time you can’t be successful without getting into the details. […]
Breakfast Tomorrow For Montreal Tech Entrepreneurs
A quick reminder — tomorrow is our 2nd Montreal Tech Entrepreneurs Breakfast. Entrepreneurs in tech-related fields of interest are welcome. That’s a fairly broad category, and I want to encourage as many people as possible to come. You can track the event at Upcoming’s event listing where so far 22 people are signed up to […]
Get a Super Dose of Word of Mouth Action
The Canadian Marketing Association is holding a 1-day conference in Toronto on Word of Mouth Marketing called From Mass to Grass. The name still cracks me up, I can’t help it… The conference is on April 12th. They’ve got a great cast of speakers lined up including Jackie Huba from Church of the Customer and […]
Your Passion Podcast – It’s All About Connecting
In the 3rd installment of Your Passion Podcast I’m talking about connecting with others. It wasn’t always my strong point, but after a year or so of blogging and realizing that I needed to put myself out there, I’ve embraced the ease and power of connecting online and started translating that to offline connecting as […]